Criminal Assets Management and Enforcement Regulators Association (CAMERA) aims to assist litigators, criminal asset managers and confiscation enforcement agencies from around the world establish and maximise expertise to assist in the use of criminal asset confiscation as an effective crime fighting tool.
Current members of CAMERA are:
- Australia
- Canada
- Czech Republic
- Jersey
- Mexico
- New Zealand
The objectives of the Association are:
1.To promote liaison, cooperation and discussion amongst proceeds of crime enforcement administrators from Government Departments, agencies and public bodies; and
2. To be recognised more broadly as a body able to promote and assist with effective and efficient systems for the enforcement of restraining, freezing, forfeiture and other types of confiscation orders and disposal of criminal assets.
3. To facilitate the exchange of information on proceeds of crime systems for the regulation, enforcement, seizure, management and confiscation of assets. This would include agency responsibilities and issues impacting on each agency’s activity and in particular legal, operational and management practices and procedures, and responses to changing proceeds of crime trends.
4. To identify issues and problems which are seen to impede the efficient and effective proceeds of crime regimes, particularly cross jurisdictional issues; impediments to effective and efficient criminal asset management and to find solutions to those impediments.
5. To contribute to the wider understanding of proceeds of crime regimes and the development of policy and practice which reflect different jurisdictions legal, historical, cultural and institutional frameworks; and
6. To liaise with other international agencies and constituencies involved in proceeds of crime administration on common proceeds of crime issues.
7. To provide a means for practitioners to exchange knowledge and develop skills and promote training to enhance the effectiveness of member associations in carrying out their responsibilities